I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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